New player struggling

[Andy Watkins]

Thanks all, I am starting to do better.

Didn't realise if a ship ran out of fuel I could just leave it mining, I presumed the crew would all die or something. Assuming you can put mining panels on a satellite this would be better and more efficient??

I built some light cruisers and went off to clobber the only neighbour I wasn't allied with. Had a couple of great fights, kicked his arse. I went to one of his colony planets did a strategic battle, won easily and the colony was gone.....

I didn't get given the option to invade, take over the colony or anything??

Admittedly I haven't yet researched ground troops, but if I had would I have been given an option to take over, or in strategic battle do you always blow up the colony?

Mining ships running out of fuel, I have found the resupply at nearest button, this is nice but they don't come back!

What does the set patrol button do, will they patrol, go back and resupply and then come back again??

Presumably if you were building a big fleet you could put a big freighter with lots of supply in the fleet and then the fleet could Last much longer??

Andy